The first movement consists of five sections that are sort of unrelated but all have the same basic beat. I wanted to see if I could write such a piece that still hung together. The fifth section does return to the material of the first section, though.

The second movement starts out as a sonata form but becomes a kind of a passacaglia. In the middle it suddenly goes from 9/8 to 4/4, with the measure staying constant, and then back to 9/8 again; the players pulled this off beautifully.